Setting Up Tile Bluetooth tracker

Configuration
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that’s what I was testing this afternoon, but at this moment I put it on the side for a little while.
Maybe I will come up with some other idea’s.

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Ugh, hate resurrecting the dead, but I have been struggling with using Tile as a device_tracker for days.

I had already installed the Tile integration but found that it didn’t work as I expected.

  • The Tile initially showed a state of ‘not_home’, which was correct, because the cleaner wasn’t at our home
  • It switched to ‘home’ when the cleaner arrived, which I would expect
  • When the cleaner left, the state remained ‘home’, which I didn’t expect
  • The next time the cleaner came the state changed to ‘not_home’ when she left
  • Then the state changed to ‘home’ when she came back
  • But did not change to ‘not_home’ when she left

On the Tile app on my Android I get a ‘This Tile not in range’ message whenever the cleaner leaves, and ‘Nearby’ when the cleaner arrives.

I then searched Google and found Bearded Tinkerer’s YouTube video. I’ve watched this video several times and I just cannot replicate the behavior in this video, or the behavior described in this thread.

There is no mention in the video of installing the Tile integration, so I am assuming that these steps do not require the Tile integration.

I first tried adding the device_tracker to the configuation.yaml with the Tile integration installed. I got the same behavior as before.

I then uninstalled the Tile integration and rebooted HA. The Tile integration was reinstalled magically.

So I deleted the Tile integration and removed the Tile device_tracker code for the configuration.yaml file and rebooted. Now I no longer had the Tile integration installed, but I also did not have any Tile devices.

So I edited my configuration.yaml and added the Tile device_tracker as per the video with the Secrets file, and rebooted. The Tile integration reappeared, and the Tiles are available, but I see the same behavior.

I do not see the tile_xxxxx device names as shown in the video, but rather the device names I use in the Tile app.

HELP. I’m going crazy.

All I am trying to do is detect when the cleaner comes to our house. This way I can turn off the alarm when the cleaner arrives and turn is back on when she leaves, if we are away.